Microsoft Releases DPM 2007 SP1 [Release Alert]

Today Microsoft released Data Protection Manager 2007 Service Pack 1 (Sp1.) It’s a big release which is why I thought it was worth a mention this morning.

Although I’m not using it on any of my Production systems yet, DPM is a VERY promising alternative to the standard Tape Backup solution for Exchange and SQL. Of course, as I get my hands dirty with DPM, you should expect the How-To articles to begin flying out here at groovyPost.com. Until then, if anyone has any comments or would like to contribute with a few How-To Tutorials of DPM, please let me know here, on my Contact Page or in the Forum.

DPM 2007 with SP1 can protect data across multiple Active Directory® forests (with two-way trust) as well as Hyper-V and file data stored locally on the DPM server. DPM SP1 also bundles features introduced in previous updates such as Windows Server 2008 System State and SQL Server 2008 protection, tape library sharing, and improved tape utilization.

With DPM SP1, DPM 2007 provides an integrated approach for backing up DPM data to the cloud. This new option is delivered in conjunction with a solution provider that provides a backup and recovery service in the cloud specifically designed to support DPM. To enable backup to the cloud, in DPM Administrator Console, go to “Manage online protection” in the Protection task area.

Protection of Hyper-V™ virtualization platforms, including both Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V and the Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008. Note: For more information about the list of required updates to protect a Hyper-V Server, visit the following Microsoft Web site: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=132612.

SQL Server 2008 protection and seamless mirrored DB protection for SQL Server 2005 and 2008 as well as capability for parallel database backups within a single instance of SQL Server and enabling data migration from SQL Server 2005 to SQL Server 2008.